Travels in Time
Essays on Collective Memory in Motion
Published on 8. May 2025
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Hardback
384 pages
978-0-19-776773-3 (ISBN)
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Human beings are time travelers. Incessantly, we traverse past, present, and future through a process called collective memory. In Travels in Time, Astrid Erll addresses the question of how collective memory emerges through motion--the movements of people, media, forms, and practices. Grounded in literary, cultural, and media memory studies, this collection of essays undertakes forays into various dimensions of collective memory as traveling memory. It discusses the ways in which families and generations shape and are shaped by the past; how media such as literature, film, and photography make and remake collective memory; or how trauma, flashbulb memories, and implicit memory are interwoven with culture. The essays consider repercussions of recent historical events as well as long-term mnemonic processes, ranging from Greek antiquity to British colonialism in India, and from the First and Second World Wars to migration in Europe, 9/11, and the coronavirus pandemic. Developing a broad perspective on collective memory, this book outlines the horizons of interdisciplinary memory research.
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Many of the essays in this collection are already classics. By bringing them together into a collection, while also updating them, Astrid Erll has provided a magisterial overview of the current field of memory studies that is set to become a standard work. Written in a lively and accessible way, it offers a thoroughly interdisciplinary perspective on collective memory which brilliantly integrates psychology, culture, and society. It should become the go-to place for anyone interested in the field of memory studies and in the work of one of its foremost theorists. * Ann Rigney, Utrecht University * This collection of essays compiled by a leading figure in the burgeoning field of Memory Studies offers an informative overview to both seasoned scholars of Memory Studies and those new to the field. Examining such central ideas as traveling memory, pre- and re-mediation, implicit collective memory, and generational aspects of collective memory, it is a must read for anyone who wants to understand how collective memory functions in the real world and is integrally connected to mediation. * William Hirst, Malcolm B. Smith Professor, Department of Psychology, New School for Social Research *More details
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English
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New York
United States
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Professional and scholarly
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33 b/w images
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Height: 27 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 235 mm
Weight
576 gr
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978-0-19-776773-3 (9780197767733)
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Astrid Erll is Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. She specializes in memory studies, literary and media history, narrative theory, and transcultural studies. In 2011, she founded the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform, a vibrant forum for international and interdisciplinary research on collective memory. She is author of Memory in Culture (2011), an introduction to memory studies, and co-editor of the Companion to Cultural Memory Studies (2010). Together with Jeffrey K. Olick, she edits the Oxford series Studies in Collective Memory.
Content
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Traveling in Time Part I: Traveling and Transcultural Memory
Chapter 1: Traveling Memory
Chapter 2: Traveling Memory in European Film Chapter 3: Homer-A Relational Mnemohistory
Chapter 4: Memory Worlds in Times of Corona Part II: Memory in Families and Generations
Chapter 5: Locating Family in Memory Studies Chapter 6: Generation in Literary History: Genealogy, Generationality, Memory Chapter 7: Fictions of Generational Memory: Caryl Philipps's In the Falling Snow (2009) Part III: Memory and Mediation
Chapter 8: Literature, Film, and the Mediality of Cultural Memory Chapter 9: Remediation across Time, Space, and Cultures: The Indian Rebellion of 1857-58 Chapter 10: Plurimediality and Traveling Schemata: "District Six" Chapter 11: The Ethics of Premediation in James Joyce's Ulysses Part IV: Dialogues with Psychology
Chapter 12: The Hidden Power of Implicit Collective Memory Chapter 13: Ecologies of Trauma
Chapter 14: Flashbulb Memories: An Interdisciplinary Research Program (with William Hirst) Afterword: Traveling On
Bibliography
Filmography
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Traveling in Time Part I: Traveling and Transcultural Memory
Chapter 1: Traveling Memory
Chapter 2: Traveling Memory in European Film Chapter 3: Homer-A Relational Mnemohistory
Chapter 4: Memory Worlds in Times of Corona Part II: Memory in Families and Generations
Chapter 5: Locating Family in Memory Studies Chapter 6: Generation in Literary History: Genealogy, Generationality, Memory Chapter 7: Fictions of Generational Memory: Caryl Philipps's In the Falling Snow (2009) Part III: Memory and Mediation
Chapter 8: Literature, Film, and the Mediality of Cultural Memory Chapter 9: Remediation across Time, Space, and Cultures: The Indian Rebellion of 1857-58 Chapter 10: Plurimediality and Traveling Schemata: "District Six" Chapter 11: The Ethics of Premediation in James Joyce's Ulysses Part IV: Dialogues with Psychology
Chapter 12: The Hidden Power of Implicit Collective Memory Chapter 13: Ecologies of Trauma
Chapter 14: Flashbulb Memories: An Interdisciplinary Research Program (with William Hirst) Afterword: Traveling On
Bibliography
Filmography
Index